The wonderful one-story American drama "Guillermo del Toro's Whimsy", which interprets the strange power and deep hell style to the extreme, but the story series is a bit unpopular, but it is an episode. Unprecedented, genre-defined, scary, magical, gothic, grotesque, countless labels followed.
Guillermo del Toro In fact, a single episode is an independent story series, and there have been frequent excellent works, such as "Black Mirror" and "Secret No. 9", which have pushed black humor satire and dark comedy to the peak, and last year there was "Love Death Season 3", this kind of story is short and concise, brain-opening, and can also touch human nature, point directly to people's hearts, and it is not too cool to brush.
And the trailer of "Guillermo del Toro's Whimsy" has just come out is eye-catching enough, after all, there is Guillermo del Toro who holds the "little golden man" as a signboard, this "strange man" who stares at the darkness and connects with the world, can always bring us surprises. He used his influence and resources to find eight well-known directors and screenwriters in the industry to create a horror "platter", which is quite a bit of a dark thriller version of "Love Death", aiming to challenge our traditional concept of horror.
In the first episode of "Auction Lot 36", I was shocked when I talked about the director, Guillermo Navarro, the director of the American dramas "Hannibal" and "Narcos". It is about a man in debt who vainly tries to shoot a warehouse like a "blind box" to turn over the salted fish, and the result is psychic, and the focus of the play is actually "greed" and "selfishness", and it is said that this episode of the story will be developed separately in the future.
In the second episode of "Graveyard Rats", the male protagonist grave keeper became a tomb robber and was also in debt. I don't know if everyone's resonance is more because of the economic embarrassment under the "mask" situation, so many people in debt. It is strongly recommended to skip because of the weak psychological tolerance, at least it caused me some discomfort. Don't look while eating, don't look.
The third episode "Autopsy", the episode I love to watch, an old forensic doctor with little time, the story of fighting wits and courage with greedy and arrogant alien life, is a very ** episode. For some reason, watching this episode reminds me of that "Bad Trip" from Love Death Season 3, "You're not brave, humans are brave".
The fourth episode "External", the storyline is based on the horror comic "Plastic Surgery Liquid" created by Oh Seong-kam of South Korea. Although it is a little boring personally, it is also a reflection that is closest to the current situation of modern life.
Without more spoilers, I personally think that the camera sense and story design of "Guillermo del Toro's Whimsy" are more like a high-profile version of "American Horror", but it is definitely more upscale than "American Horror".
These eight episodes don't look like each director has completed each episode individually, but more like each content contains the condensed talent of each director, and in front of you are eight wood carvings with different shapes and styles, each of which is meticulously crafted. From the intimidating cemetery to the thrilling backdrop**, and the amazing art direction and imagination, every detail is worth savoring.